----- Original Message ----- From: "Dyna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Mpls] Inaccessable City Sponsored Housing- the Next Holman?
snip... > > I attended one of the public hearings on the Heritage Park projects a > couple years back. I and several other citizens in attendance reminded > the designers of this blunder in the bog of the need to make it > accessible for those of us who can't do stairs. They didn't listen to > us, and while a few apartments may be accessible the townhomes aren't. > Of course, given the smell of petrochemicals that permeates the place > this may be an academic matter, with the wrecking ball perhaps soon to > return to this crippled creek. The old projects had several accessible > buildings, and Minneapolis and it's developers have failed to replace > most of those accessible units. > ...snip > > Dyna Sluyter Dean here: Heritage Park is being built in full accordance with Section 504 (basically the Americans with Disability Act) which governs how many accessible units must be built. I can't recall off the top of my head which units are accessible and which aren't, but I do know they are distributed equitably among bedroom sizes. Again without hard numbers in front of me, I'm pretty sure more units are being built that are handicapped accessible then were in the old "projects." Also, given the fact that all testing of the Heritage Park water, woodchips, ponds, etc, at Heritage Park found NO unwarranted contaminants, I'm guessing it will be a long time before we see the wrecking ball back on the Near Northside. Dean E. Carlson East Harriet Farmstead Ward 10 TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. 2. If you don't like what's being discussed here, don't complain - change the subject (Mpls-specific, of course.) ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
